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Costly and Cute: Helpless Infants and Human Evolution - School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series Phd Trevathan Karen R. Rosenberg-Wenda R.
Costly and Cute: Helpless Infants and Human Evolution - School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Phd Trevathan Karen R. Rosenberg-Wenda R.
Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are highly dependent on others and who learn how to be human while their brains are experiencing growth unlike that seen in other primates.
328 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 30, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780826357458 |
| Publishers | University of New Mexico Press |
| Pages | 328 |
| Dimensions | 238 × 158 × 27 mm · 530 g |
| Editor | Rosenberg, Karen R. |
| Editor | Trevathan, Wenda R., PhD |